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2020-January-28-Roan Class Of, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Jan. 28, 2020) – The Roan Scholars Leadership Program has selected eight high school seniors for the incoming Roan Class of 2024. Those students will join 24 returning Roan Scholars at East Tennessee State University this fall as part of the prestigious four-year scholarship program.

“2020 is a milestone year for the Roan Program, as it marks the 20^th anniversary of the first class entering ETSU,” said Scott Jeffress, Roan director. “The Roan Program has established a tradition of recruiting to ETSU outstanding young leaders who have already demonstrated commitment to leadership excellence in a variety of …

Impact Of Corporate Sustainability On Firm Value: Indonesian Context, Muhammad Yusuf Shalihin, Harry Suharman, Dede Abdul Hasyir

Journal of Accounting Auditing and Business

Sustainability reports emerge as a critical problem in the business world. Companies do not merely pursue profit maximization, but must pay attention to non-financial factors to maintain long-term growth. This study aims to investigate the relationship between company sustainability and company value. This study involved a sample of companies included in the proper index listed on the capital market and included in the category of 45 of the most actively traded companies (LQ45) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange with a study period of 2015-2018. Sample selection by purposive sampling method with the final results obtained 20 sample companies that meet …

The Effect Of Cash Holding, Firm Size, And Financial Leverage To Earning Management In State-Owned Enterprises (Soes), Muhammad Elmas Fadlli, Khairunnisa M.M.

Journal of Accounting Auditing and Business

This research was conducted to determine the simultaneous and partial influence between cash holding, firm size, and financial leverage on earnings management in SOEs Companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange during 2012-2018. The method in this study used a quantitative method. This research uses descriptive research with case study research type. The sampling technique in this study used a purposive sampling technique by obtaining 12 sample companies with a period of 7 years to obtain 84 sample units. This research used a logistic regression analysis method using SPSS 25.0 software. The results of this study indicate that cash holding …

Quality Of Life Between Working And Non-Workingpalestinian Women, Olfat Mahmoud

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

This study tackles a number of variables that form the core of positive psychology: self-efficacy, optimism, the estimations of physical health, mental health, happiness and satisfaction, in addition to the variable of healthy behavior which is deemed a new-comer in Arab studies. The study, thus, seeks to determine the differences between these variable in the light of sex, as well as the relation between healthy behavior and the variables of the study. It also seeks to identify the factors that can be extracted from the correlation coefficients among the scales used, and finally to identify the variables that may predict …

World View: Self Perceptionhow Do Traditional Healers See Themselves?A Comparative Study Between Two Tribes: The Kikuyu (Kenya) And El Gabaleya (Egypt), Iman El Bastawisi

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

In terms of all the changing orientations and perspectives towards “Traditional Healing” as an activity and professional that might meet with the call of “back to nature”, the present research aims to shed light on the views and perceptions of the one who are truly and totally involved in this practition. By using the comparative method in presenting and analyzing two different cases : the case of a traditional healer from the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya and the case of a traditional healer from El Gabaleya tribe in Egypt. Field studies were carried out among both tribes and intensive in …

Development Of Hardiness Questionnaire A Psychometric Study On High School Students In Lebanon, Helga Alaeddine

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

With the emergence of Positive Psychology in 1980, research moved from examining the effect of negative stressors to focusing on the exploration of positive variables that enhance an individual’s ability to face such stressors without the negative impact on their physical and mental health. Further, recent research seeks to study the personality traits which can alleviate the adverse effects of stressful life events. Psychologists have observed that crises and stress often lead to more hardy individuals compared to those who have not been through similar experiences or faced similar stress. Psychological hardiness is, therefore, one of the most prominent variables …

Caregiver Burden, Coping Mechanisms And Catharsis: An Exploratory Study, Triveni Goswami Vernal

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Adopting a qualitative approach, with narrative analysis, an attempt will be made to understand the experience of ‘Caregiver Burden’ amongst 5-7 primary caregivers of children with Autism, in India. An attempt will also be made to capture their coping mechanisms and cathartic behaviours, to reduce stress. To this end, a Caregiver Burden Inventory and an Open Ended questionnaire, touching upon the main issues, will be used. The study also aims to perceive how autonomy as a personality trait can play a significant role in empowering oneself as a caregiver and subsequently have noteworthy consequences on the coping mechanisms and cathartic …

Current Practices Of Community Pharmacists In Counseling Patients On Smoking Cessation In Beirut:A Questionnaire – Based Study, Mohamed Issa, Maya Elsolh, Lama Soubra

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Despite various strategies and efforts exerted in the form of awareness campaigns, health conferences, targeted advertisements and laws, the prevalence of smoking is alarmingly increasing for both genders in Lebanon. Because of the ease of accessibility, community pharmacists are ideally positioned to help their patients quit smoking. The current study aims to assess the Lebanese pharmacists’ practices in counseling their patients on smoking cessation. A cross-sectional study targeting community pharmacists in Beirut was conducted during June 2017 to September 2017. The adopted questionnaire was designed based on the WHO approved 5A’s toolkit program for delivering brief tobacco interventions in primary …

Does Durkheim's Theory Hold Any Truths For Modern Day Self-Immolation? A Review On The Literature, Mohsen Rezaeian

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Durkheim categorized suicide into four types as “egoistic”, “anomic”, “fatalistic”, and “altruistic”. He further hypothesized that the last two types i.e. “fatalistic” and “altruistic” are assigned to the then traditional society. However, in the present article and through literature review I will discuss that in modern society and especially within some low and middle income countries, self-immolation on its first and second most prevalent patterns i.e. to protest at micro and macro levels, respectively could be considered as a social self-sacrifice phenomenon. Therefore, it may well categorize as the altruistic type of suicide based on Durkheim’s theory.

Suicide And Culture, Mehmet Eskin

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

The rates of suicidal ideation, attempts and mortality present a large intersocietal variation. This variation is usually attributed to the role of culture, but the issue is still poorly understood. How does culture contribute to the intersocietal or cross-cultural variation of suicidal behavior? How culture might be involved in the onset, maintenance and aggravation of suicidal tendencies? In this paper, I will be discussing possible mechanisms of culture for the onset, maintenance and aggravation of suicidal propensities. Specifically, I will be examining the role of religion, individualistic-collectivistic value orientations, self-construal and survival versus self-expression values for their relevance to suicidal …

Natural Narcotics: Phytochemical Content Analysis And Their Social Hazards, Kareem Raafat

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Narcotics can cause a wide range of adverse effects. The analysis of the narcotics phytochemical content utilizing rapid and efficient techniques have become of imminent need. The use of illegal drugs has been a long-standing problem in the world, a problem that has taken on a particular urgency in the last 30 years. The aim of the study is to develop comprehensive rapid technique in the field of phytochemical content analysis of narcotics, and to illustrate the role of the new narcotics on many psychological, physiological and social hazards, and giving recommendations on how to find solutions to these problems. …

Diabetes And Depression: Relation To Glycemic Control, Hala Ahmadieh

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide highly prevalent chronic metabolic disorder, characterized by hyperglycemia, and is associated with significant complications, including the microvascular complications such as neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy and the macrovascular complications such as cardiovascular, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease, thus leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Patients with diabetes were found to be 1.4-3 times more likely to suffer from comorbid depression when compared to non-diabetics, and depression in diabetes is usually persistent and/or recurrent. Depression was found to be increased among patients with type I and type II diabetes mellitus, which have higher glycosylated hemoglobin. Association …

The Factor Structure Of Mental Health: Explanatory & Confirmatory Factor Structure Of Psychological Distress And Psychological Well-Being Measures, Badr El Ansari

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Psychological distress (PD) is usually based on the level of anxiety and depressive symptoms while psychological well-being (PW) is usually conceptualized as some combination of positive affective states such as happiness, optimism, satisfaction with life, and hope. This paper addresses the question of whether psychological distress and psychological well-being are the opposite poles of the same axis of mental health or independent constructs that should be measured on two independent axes. Methods: The sample consisted of (510) Kuwait University students, (240) males with a mean age of (24.08 ±5.10) and (270) females, with a mean age of (21.68 ±2.70), (f=46.77, …

Maternal Well-Being Therapy In Treating Depression In Johor City Of Malaysia, Akeel Khan, Deviga Marappan, Adibah Abdul Latif

BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing

Maternal depression during pregnancy appears to be the most common and complicated psychological disorder in the world. Although maternal depression can be treated medically, consumption of antidepressant drugs could leave some kind of negative side effects on mother’s body and the baby in the womb. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to determine the effectiveness of Maternal Well-being Therapy (MWT) in treating women with maternal depression. It is a qualitative study adapting case study research design. From the state of Johor city of Malaysia, four pregnant women who has scored 12 or more with suicidal thoughts symptoms on …

2020-January-27-Etsu Public Safety Seeking Name For New Therapy Dog, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (January 27, 2020) The newest member of the East Tennessee State University public safety team arrives in a few weeks and needs just one thing before she gets started:  a name.

The newbie is a therapy dog who is part of the Paws & Stripes Comfort Dog Program.   She will be on the ETSU campus in February, and her soon-to-be colleagues are seeking ideas for a name.

As a therapy dog, she will be available to meet with students when they need a break from the pressures and demands of college. She is not a trained K-9 …

2020-January-27-Etsu Nearly Sweeps Icca South Region Quarterfinals, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Jan. 27, 2020) – Greyscale, the premier a cappella ensemble in East Tennessee State University’s Department of Music, brought home first place honors in the South Region quarterfinals of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA), held Saturday, Jan. 25, on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Greyscale, along with ETSU’s Swashbucklers, Harmonium and Ascension, competed against five ensembles from UT-Knoxville and one from the University of Memphis.  The first-place finish qualifies Greyscale to move on to the ICCA South Semifinals, which will be held March 7 at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, North …

2020-January-27-Pharmacy Students Serve Community As Part Of National Service Day, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

National Day of Service

Morgan Thomas (’23), of Johnson City; Tess Willcoxon (’23), Sevierville; and Alexa Bancroft (’21), Cleveland working to educate patients on ACT (Academia-CPESN Transformation) Pharmacy Collaborative National Day of Service at Colonial Heights Pharmacy & Gifts in Kingsport.

JOHNSON CITY (Jan. 27, 2020) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy students recently made an impact serving at four different independent community pharmacies across the region conducting blood pressure readings, immunizations and patient education. 

Participating as part of the ACT (Academia-CPESN Transformation) Pharmacy Collaborative National Day of Service, 15 ETSU pharmacy students provided outreach at …

The Choice Between Ebooks And Printed Books: A Study Among Hospitality And Tourism Educators And Learners, Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam Phd, Partho Pratim Seal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The emergence of electronic books (ebook) changed the position of printed books in the learning space. This study examines the perceptions and preferences of hospitality and tourism educators and learners. Similarities and dissimilarities in the preference, perception and its link with gender, and scope of the degree course what the respondents teach and learn are analyzed. Data was collected from both students and teachers of hospitality, tourism and culinary degree program at a private university located in Karnataka, India. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The result of the study shows that printed books are …

How Technology-Based Start-Ups Support U.S. Economic Growth, Mary Blankenship, Caitlin Saladino, William E. Brown

Economic Development & Workforce

This Fact Sheet examines the trends of technology-based start-ups within the United States and specific states in the Mountain West (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico) across the top 10 technology industries in 2016, using data provided by a report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

Pearls, People, And Power : Pearling And Indian Ocean Worlds, Pedro Machado, Steve Mullins, Joseph Christensen

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

Pearls, People, and Power is the first book to examine the trade, distribution, production, and consumption of pearls and mother-of-pearl in the global Indian Ocean over more than five centuries. While scholars have long recognized the importance of pearling to the social, cultural, and economic practices of both coastal and inland areas, the overwhelming majority have confined themselves to highly localized or at best regional studies of the pearl trade. By contrast, this book stresses how pearling and the exchange in pearl shell were interconnected processes that brought the ports, islands, and coasts into close relation with one another, creating …

Barn-Raising On The Digital Frontier: The L.A.U.N.C.H. Collaborative, Bradford W. Hesse, David Ahern, Michele Ellison, Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, Robin C. Vanderpool, Karen Onyeije, Michael C. Gibbons, Timothy W. Mullett, Ming-Yuan Chih, Victoria Attencio, Grant Patterson, Jessica Boten, Christopher Hartshorn, Ben Bartolome, Katie Gorscak, Melanie Mccomsey, Alexandra Hubenko, Bin Huang, Corey Baker, Don Norman

Journal of Appalachian Health

A meta-analysis of oncology papers from around the world revealed that cancer patients who lived more than 50 miles away from hospital centers routinely presented with more advanced stages of disease at diagnosis, exhibited lower adherence to prescribed treatments, presented with poorer diagnoses, and reported a lower quality of life than patients who lived nearer to care facilities. Connected health approaches—or the use of broadband and telecommunications technologies to evaluate, diagnose, and monitor patients beyond the clinic—are becoming an indispensable tool in medicine to overcome the obstacle of distance.

Analysis Of Company Performance Measurement Using The Balanced Scorecard Method, Arif Setiawan, Andry Arifian Rachman

Journal of Accounting Auditing and Business

This study aims to determine how the performance of the Regional Water Company of Sleman Regency by using the Balanced Scorecard method viewed from a financial perspective, customer perspective, internal business process perspective, and learning and growth perspective. The results of the study show that the performance of the Regional Water Company of Sleman Regency in 2015-2017 can be said to be good, and included in the "healthy" category, with a total performance value of 3,035 in 2015; 3,110 in 2016; and 3,480 in 2017

Leveraging Legal Analytics And Spend Data As A Law Firm Self-Governance Tool, Nancy B. Rapoport, Joseph R. Tiano Jr.

The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law

Our essay has five parts: (i) a discussion of how external forces are reshaping the economics of today’s legal industry; (ii) examples of the types of decisions that tend to drive up the cost of bills in contravention of ethical duties; (iii) a discussion of possible reasons for those decisions (including a short discussion of social science explanations); (iv) a description of how attorneys can use data analytics tools to self-govern how they staff, deliver and bill for their legal services; and (v) recommendations for how both clients and law firms can benefit from proactively managing, on the front end, …

The Quonset Economic Impact, Edinaldo Tebaldi

Economics Faculty Journal Articles

This report provides a data-driven and comprehensive assessment of the economic impact and tax incidence implications of economic activities at the Quonset Business Park.

The Long Road To Lindenwood: World Travels Lead To University Presidency For John R. Porter, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

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The Quality Of Local Government Financial Statements And The Use Of Financial Information In Decision Making, Raden Muhammad Rachmansyah Shadiqiawan, Sri Mulyani

Journal of Accounting Auditing and Business

Financial statements contain information that is very helpful for users in making decisions. This study examines whether there are differences in the use of financial statement information decision making between the local government that obtain unqualified and qualified opinion for their financial statements. This study used the Mann Whitney test for hypothesis testing. Data was collected through a survey using a questionnaire on five local governments in West Java.The results of this study indicate that there are no significant differences in the use of financial statement information for local government decision-making, both in local governments that obtain unqualified and qualified …

Internal Audit Policy Statement, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Internal Audit Division, Jerry Cicalese

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Lessons Learned: Edwin (Ted) Truman, Yasemin Sim Esmen

Journal of Financial Crises

Insights on fighting financial crises from Ted Truman, an expert in responding to the international dimensions of financial crises. Topics include the initial US response to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 and the utiltiy of issuing Special Drawing Rights (SDR).

Lessons Learned: Ray Dalio, Andrew Metrick, Rosalind Z. Wiggins, Kaleb B. Nygaard

Journal of Financial Crises

Insights from a discussion with Ray Dalio, Founder, Chairman, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridgewater Associates, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Topics range from monetary policy to communications strategy when responding to a financial crisis.

Basel Iii G: Shadow Banking And Project Finance, Christian M. Mcnamara, Andrew Metrick

Journal of Financial Crises

The Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR), a liquidity standard introduced by Basel III, seeks to promote a better match between the liquidity of a bank’s assets and the manner in which the bank funds those assets. The NSFR requires banks to maintain a minimum amount of funding deemed “stable” by the Basel framework based on the liquidity of the banks’ assets and activities over a one-year timeframe. One of the areas seen as most affected by this development may be bank participation in project finance for infrastructure development. Since the global demand for infrastructure development remains robust, the shadow banking …